Chapter 774: Trainer Aircraft

Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.

Alondo knelt in front of the Buddha statue in the office, stood up after today's prayer, then made a cup of tea with hot water, came to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked at the beautiful street scene of Bangkok in the early morning, the mood was particularly comfortable, just like he prayed in front of the Buddha statue just now, the Royal Thai Aerospace Industries Company under his control will become the hegemon of the aviation industry in Southeast Asia and even the whole of Asia, just like the thriving Thai economy today.

In less than 10 years, Thailand will achieve comprehensive industrial upgrading with Royal Thai Aerospace Industries Corporation, Chiang Mai Semiconductor of Thailand, and Thai Urban Construction Investment Group as the core, and then become a high-end manufacturing country similar to Japan.

Originally, Alondo would not have dared to think of all this three years ago, after all, although the Thai aviation manufacturing industry at that time was in Thailand, almost all of the technology, equipment, models and even shares came from China's Tengfei Group.

To put it mildly, the Thai aviation manufacturing industry at that time was an overseas extension of the Tengfei Group, and it didn't matter what to make, what not to make, and how to build it.

Originally, this state would last for five to ten years, after all, if the aviation manufacturing industry wants to play completely, it will not work without a certain period of accumulation.

Thailand is also ready for long-term cooperation with Ascendas Group.

However, no one expected that in the late 80s and early 90s, an international geopolitical turmoil would affect China and even affect the Tengfei Group.

As a result, the TM-9 business jet launched by Tengfei Group and Thailand was stuck in the airworthiness certificate by Europe and the United States for various reasons, and it was unable to enter the mainstream international market for a long time.

As a result, the preferential policy of tax deduction for buying aircraft in Thailand immediately became a chicken rib, and instead of working, it received a large number of returns, suffering a lot of losses.

Although Thailand and Tengfei Group are in a cooperative relationship, the so-called brothers still have to settle accounts, and the agent produces your products at a loss, so it is natural to find out the producer to have an explanation.

So at that time, Alondo had a dispute with Zhuang Jianye about this matter for more than two years, and finally Alondo forced Zhuang Jianye to choose to compromise by withdrawing from the cooperation between the two trainers.

However, at that time, Tengfei Group was in an internal and external predicament, with limited funds in hand, and could not repurchase the returned TM-9, and finally could only use the shares held by it as a deduction to recover more than 60 TM-9 aircraft.

Of course, the Tengfei Group did not waste any of these planes, and the air communication command planes, air gunboats, and short-range transport planes of the Airborne Forces, the communications relay and air command of the Air Force Aviation Units, and the Navy's small air early warning planes, air patrol planes, and small antisubmarine planes were all converted from the 60 TM-9 planes that were returned.

In total, Lin Lin digested more than thirty planes.

The remaining part was transferred to the forestry, address, water conservancy, exploration and other departments as a special technology platform, and the remaining more than 20 planes were handed over to the general aviation company under the Tengfei Group as a short-distance passenger and cargo transportation platform.

After Ning Xiaodong took out most of his family funds and established an airline, Zhuang Jianye divided more than half of the TM-9 aircraft operated by the group without saying a word, and handed it over to Ning Xiaodong's newly established Mingdong Airlines in the form of leasing.

All in all, although it was a large loss, it was still possible to make the best use of the returned TM-9 aircraft.

However, compared with Zhuang Jianye's retreat to the country, the accumulation of strength is different, and the successful force to force back the Tengfei Group Alondo and the Thai government behind it are naturally not satisfied with the Tengfei Group's concessions, they want to achieve complete control, and produce real aircraft belonging to the Thais, even if they can't for the time being, they must ensure their own independence, through the introduction of projects or patent licenses to produce independently.

It's not as good as when the factory was first built, and there had to be a emperor called Tengfei Group on his head.

Therefore, with the tacit approval of the Thai government, Alondo began to reorganize the company, changing its name from the original Royal Thai Aerospace Industries Corporation to the Royal Thai Aerospace Industries Corporation, and at the same time carrying out large-scale financing, and successively introduced the Royal Thai Fund, the Thai Urban Construction Investment Corporation, the Malaysian Government Fund, Singapore's Temasek, Brunei Energy Fund and other Southeast Asian investment giants to inject funds.

In this way, the original shares were diluted on a large scale, so that after several rounds of financing, Tengfei Group's shares were only a pitiful 11.8%.

However, Alondo did not stop and continued to evaporate, and then listed in Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia at the same time, and the shares of Ascendas Group were further diluted to 6.7%.

So much so that even the top 10 shareholders were not ranked, and they became insignificant investors with ordinary shares.

After a skillful capital operation, Alondo not only firmly controlled the control of Royal Thai Aerospace Industries, but also became the cornerstone of Thailand's economic transformation in the future.

With control in place, Royal Thai Aerospace Industries, which has initial aerospace manufacturing capabilities, will naturally have to do its best to prepare for the economic transformation planned by the Thai government, so it must have products that can improve Thailand's international image and hit Indonesia's biggest rival in the region.

The second is to raise high profits through new products in order to accumulate capital for the Thai government's economic transformation.

Due to the failure of the TM-9 aircraft, the Alondo Absolute General Purpose Aircraft is somewhat unreliable, and even if it is built, it does not reflect the strength of the Royal Thai Aerospace Industries.

After all, the popularity of general aircraft is too low.

The arrival of the fighter is eye-catching, and the profit margin is higher, the problem is that the Royal Thai Aerospace Industries Company simply does not have the ability to build it, so after thinking about it, Alondo finally set his sights on the low-key but not simple type of trainer.

Of course, if it weren't for the experience of working with Ascendas to improve the "Fan Trainer" training aircraft, Alondo, a layman, would not have found that this type of aircraft would have such great potential.

Yes, not in general, but very huge, to what extent?

In the future, the gap of various types of training aircraft will reach 3,000 to 5,000 in the world.

There is no way, most of the training aircraft in the world today are old models from the fifties and sixties, and the two giants of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, are not to mention the others.

The main training aircraft of the United States is the T-38, which entered service at the end of the fifties, and it is not confusing to see that it is going to be forty.

The main training aircraft of the Soviet Union is the Czech L-29\\39 series, which was also put into service in the fifties and is also the classic aircraft of the Ben-4.

Even the United States and the Soviet Union are like this, and other countries are even more unbearable, and if the air forces of various countries keep the existing main aircraft unchanged, it is okay, and the old planes will be the old planes, and the tinkering can be improvised.

However, with the Gulf War, people saw the huge potential and advantages of third-generation aircraft in future wars, and many countries that have made economic achievements began to be eager to try and prepare to introduce a number of third-generation aircraft as the backbone of the air force; under such demand, the training and training of pilots is bound to keep up with the pulse of the times, so the training aircraft that can be used for the training and teaching of third-generation fighters must be called out anyway.